tufted vetch
cow vetch
bird vetch
blue vetch
boreal vetch
vicia cracca latin

Tufted Vetch is considered by some to be a potentially detrimental species in areas where it is not native.

Chionodes lugubrella - recorded on tufted vetch (V. cracca)

Favourite food sources are flowering plants as clover (especially males often visit white clover), tufted vetch, knapweed and others.

Vicia benghalensis is a species of vetch known by the common names purple vetch and reddish tufted vetch.

Hairy vetch is very similar to tufted vetch, the most noticeable difference being that tufted vetch has a smooth stem.

Ostentatious day-flying moths, the scarlet and black six-spot burnets buzzed with whirring wings from yellow birds foot trefoil to blue sheep bit to mauve tufted vetch.

Vicia cracca (tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, boreal vetch), is a species of vetch native to Europe and Asia.

The sun shone down on the grassy slopes, accentuating petal colour: blue of germander speed well, pink of camp ion, mauve of tufted vetch and white of stitchwort.

Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass.

It is grown - like tufted vetch (V. cracca) - as a mid-summer pollen source for honeybees, but the main usage of the common vetch is as forage for ruminant animals, both as fodder and legume.

The female lays her eggs on various members of the pea family in late May and June, most commonly Meadow Vetchling Lathyrus pratensis, bitter vetch Lathyrus linifolius, Tufted Vetch Vicia cracca and Birds-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus.

These deserted sand dunes host an amazing variety of wild flowers: heath and marsh bedstraw, ragwort, meadow vetchling, tufted vetch, marsh cinquefoil, felwort, angelica, marsh valerian, and that Buchan beauty, grass of Parnassus; as well as rare orchids: spotted, and butterfly orchid.

Cow Vetch is also much appreciated by bees and butterflies as a source of nectar.

Cow Vetch is considered by some to be a potentially detrimental species in areas where it is not native.

Its utility as a cover crop and source of green manure has encouraged the introduction and naturalisation of Cow Vetch far beyond its native range.

Cow Vetch is very similar to Hairy Vetch (V. villosa), but is distinguished from the latter by its smooth stem.

Cow Vetch is similar to a pea in growth habit, sending out noose-like tendrils from the tips of its leaves when it contacts another plant and securely fastens itself.

Vicia cracca (tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, boreal vetch), is a species of vetch native to Europe and Asia.

Owners of pet birds such as Budgerigars often use Cow Vetch as a nutritious food; the birds are especially fond of the seeds but may also eat the foliage.

Cow Vetch is widely used as a forage crop for cattle, and is beneficial to other plants because, like other leguminous plants, it enriches the soil in which it grows by its nitrogen-fixing properties.

Vicia cracca (tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, boreal vetch), is a species of vetch native to Europe and Asia.

Vicia cracca (tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, boreal vetch), is a species of vetch native to Europe and Asia.